Jinnah
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Gujarati, most prominently of the family of Muhammad Ali Jinnah
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/dʒɪnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jinnah is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.5M(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 44K
- SLSierra Leone≈1 in 84K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- 1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
≈450 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A surname from Gujarati, most prominently of the family of Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jinnah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 524K | — | Jinnah | 9 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 390K | — | Jinnah | 16 |
| US United States | 135 | 1 in 2.5M | 155 | Jinnah | 126 |
| CA Canada | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 332K | — | Jinnah | 56 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 292K | — | Jinnah | 9 |
| SL Sierra Leone | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 84K | 2 | — | 3 |
| SG Singapore | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 281K | — | Jinnah | 11 |
| GY Guyana | 17 | 1 in 44K | 17 | Jinnah | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; NEC/ECSL — 2018 Local Council, Chairperson and Mayor nominated candidates. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Jinnah is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Mohamnned All, governor-general.
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Pakistan
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Croatian, indijsko-muslimanski političar; utemeljitelj i prvi general-guverner Pakistana (1947—1948); ambasador hindu-muslimanskog ujedinjenja, »otac« pakistanske države
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Muhammad Ali Jinnahb. 1876PKpolitician and the founder of Pakistan (1876–1948)
- Emibai Jinnahb. 1878PKMuhammad Ali Jinnah's first wife
- Fatima Jinnahb. 1893PKPakistani dental surgeon, biographer and stateswoman (1893–1967)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 155 | #118,445 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 135 | #126,765 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 112 | #137,816 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 17 | #608 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jinnah mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Gujarati, most prominently of the family of Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Jinnah?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɪnə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jinnah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 446 people named Jinnah in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jinnah.
- Where is Jinnah most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jinnah is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 44 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jinnah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 135 people named Jinnah in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jinnahThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jinnah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.